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12 Beautiful Quotes From Lebanese Writers
Have you ever taken the time to browse through some of the magical things Lebanese authors have said? Here are some of our favorites.
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“I fear love a lot, but a little love doesn’t satisfy me.”
― May Ziadeh, Love Letters: The Love Letters of Khalil Gibran to May Ziade
2.
“If you’re ignorant of love, what good are sunrises and sunsets to you?”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand
3.
“[Beirut has gathered the] manners and customs, the flaws and vengeance, the guilt and debauchery of the whole world into her belly.”
― Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose
4.
“Every poem is a beginning of poetry and every love is a beginning of paradise.”
― Ounsi El Hage, The Banquet
5.
“A girl dreamt she was a butterfly – She got up – And didn’t know whether she was
A girl dreaming she was a butterfly
Or – A butterfly dreaming it was a girl”
― Ounsi El Hage, Butterfly Girl
6.
“If it wasn’t for love, mankind wouldn’t have tasted the happiness of being nor felt exhilarated by life’s liquor.”
― Mikhael Naimeh, Al Mirdad
7.
“How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.”
― Mikhael Naimeh, Al Mirdad
8.
“Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.”
― Mikhael Naimeh, Al Mirdad
9.
“Other humans gaze at the sky, but I say unto you, the only way through the world is to pass through the underground.”
― Rawi Hage, Cockroach
10.
“I don’t want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don’t want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I’m not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”
― Hanan el Shaykh
11.
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran
12.
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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